{"id":605,"date":"2006-01-30T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2010-06-14T12:47:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T11:47:02","slug":"605","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/605\/","title":{"rendered":"Country walk, drinking and a new camera – Ricoh GRD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Country walk, drinking and a new camera<\/strong><\/p>\n

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On Saturday I was charged with organising the January urban75 country walk, and am pleased to say that there was a healthy turn out and the walk was a good ‘un.<\/p>\n

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We walked from Amersham through the Chilterns to the pretty village of Chalfont St Giles, grabbed a pint in a pub full of decidedly non-picturesque locals before taking the high road back.<\/p>\n

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It was freezing – and I mean really<\/em> freezing – but the artic blast and nine mile walk was just what I needed to shake out the London cobwebs.<\/p>\n

Amersham to Chalfont St Giles walk<\/a><\/p>\n

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I took along a review model of the new Ricoh GRD – an intriguing new camera, offering fixed 28mm wide-angle lens, manual controls, minimalist old-school design, RAW shooting, 8 megapixels with a fast f2.4 lens – very much like my old beloved Olympus XA 35mm compact!<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So far, I’ve been impressed: because of it’s basic looks, people assume it’s a crappy old cheapo camera (one person thought it was a disposable camera!) – which makes it very suitable for street photography (or, as another friend put it, “you don’t want to be waving around camera bling in the ghetto!”).<\/p>\n

It’s pretty nippy in operation and I love having direct control over shutter speed\/aperture – no fiddling about in sub-menus here!<\/p>\n

Noise is smooth and film-like at 64 ISO and reasonable up to 200\/400 ISO – way, way better than the Lumix LX1<\/a> that I really wanted to like. And the macro goes up to 1cm!!!!<\/p>\n

I think my quest for the ultimate street digicam could be over!<\/p>\n

In the evening, we went to a free night at The Prince and then on to PROD<\/a> at the Canterbury Arms, Brixton. It was also an egagement party for my two mates Lee and Ailsa. There was a fabulous turn out and I felt well chuffed for them. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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